Category: Piratemania

Maybe you’ve got the pirate princess bug but you’re not ready to run away to sea just yet. But if you’re a lucky bastard and happen to be in Honolulu, Hawaii, you can join the crew of the Treasure Seeker for a whirlwind hour-and-a-half jaunt from Kewalo Basin to Waikiki and back. Aye, ma’am!

“Avatar” star Zoe Saldana was spotted with footballer-turned-artist Marco “Pirate” Perego on the isle of Capri, after which they escaped the photogs by sea, of course. What do you think? Is Marco pirate enough to be Pirate?

Philly, yer not safe! Pirates of the Delaware staged an epic sea power battle today as part o’ the Seaport Fest and ITLAPD.
Check out super-cute pirate Chris Simmons of the tall ship Gazela (aka Captain Black Dread. I wonder if that’s his real hair?)

Yaarrr, it be here at last! International Talk Like A Pirate Day be sailin’ in on the mornin’ tide, and like a good Pirate Princess, I’m swillin’ a jigger o’ rum to celebrate! And I’m dustin’ off the rip-roarinest pirate chanty o’ all time, “The Last Saskatchewan Pirate,” by those Canadian buccaneers, The Arrogant Worms. No landlubber boards me vessel without knowin’ it.

I’ve also plundered this sing-a-long o’ that pirate chestnut “Drunken Sailor” courtesy o’ me mateys at Talk Like A Pirate Official Headquarters. (Don’t ye be worryin’, it’ll be gettin’ catchier as it rolls on!)

A new excavation of a hideout in Belize–a Pirate Fortress of Solitude called the Barcadares-proves pirates lived elegantly when not plundering. Except for their rum–that they drank straight from the bottle.

There’s a new pirate movie coming out next year from Ardman, makers of the brilliant (and in my house, required watching) Wallace and Gromit cartoons. Plus, Hugh Grant as a pirate, albeit one made of clay? Yum! Watch! Funny!

Before you get all excited, to clarify, the dive team off the coast of Panama (funded by guess who), said they only thought they might have found a part of Capt. Henry Morgan’s ship, which supposedly sank in 1671 while defending Panama City against Spain while working as an English privateer.

The handsome young Welsh scion Henry Morgan, before he became the scallywag we all know and love.

If you’re craving a pirate fix (and let’s face it, if you’re living in Denver, you probably are) you can head to the Denver Museum of Natural Science, where the Real Pirates immersion exhibit tells the tale of the Whyda, the slave-ship-turned-pirate-ship, commanded by Capt. Sam Bellamy, that sank in 1717 off the coast of Cape Cod and is, to my understanding, the first pirate shipwreck ever discovered in North America.

What a cute crew! From L-R: Hendrick Quintor, John King, Capt. Sam Bellamy, John Julian

On display: treasure the Whydah was carrying from over 50 different plundered ships. You also get to meet a Real Life Pirate Princess and Sweet Polly Oliver, Joquette Devereaux, who grew up on Hispaniola, the daughter of a cartographer, and joined the Whydah crew dressed like a man.

Find out more at the official site above. But you have to make it in before August 21, when the traveling exhibit heads to my current neck of the woods, Minneapolis.